AMAKHOLWA - THE BELIEVERS BY BUSI MHLONGO. THE FINAL ALBUM FROM THE AFRICAN SOUND SENSATION DIGITALLY RE-RELEASED ON ALL STREAMING PLATFORMS
Mac MacKenzie with Hilton Schilder and Alex Van Heerden created the Goema Captains of Cape Town. The Cape Town musicians and community gave their all to this project. 'Healing Destination' - a tribute to Cape Town City, the mother city with her mountain, sea and port.
Music collaborations would actively seek the sound of Cape Town bringing in artists such as Mac MacKenzie, Robbie Jansen, Alex Van Heerden and Khoi Khoilektif. Our concept was: “Music for the sake of music.” 250 artists recorded. One album.
The Khoi Khoinextion evolved into a Khoilektif and birthed the Goema Princess V Monica B. Features Jethro Louw Robbie Rudolf Loit Sols V Monica B Lesley Javan and DJ Hamma.
Addressing the big gap about a serious South African music museum is a vision of national and personal importance. A South African music museum will provide the balance between the long history of South African music heritage thereby bringing long-term sustainability t and creating a legacy that will outlive this generation. The South African Music Museum is envisaged as a teaching museum/interpretive centre, placing innovative accents on music heritage, music resources, business, education and community outreaCH.
Archives of recorded SA Jazz and overviews of the development of SA Jazz. A living and dynamic resource that is made permanently available to education. A vast land united from ancient times hosts many different people and many different musical flavours. This resaerch, interviews, comments, anecdotes and collections cover the length and breadth of everything from Malombo Jazz to Xhosa Africa Cape Jazz to Sophiatown Shuffle, Mbaqanga Jazz etc. But it is all jazz, and South African Jazzbecause jazz menas freedom. And freedom is expressed through uBuntu and the friendships formed all over the world for this music.
From the main cities of Southern Africa, from coast to coast, to the rural areas and hinterlands - the musical soud vibration was a big mix up bonded by a spirit of togetherness and self actualisation. These works find their home in mentorship, education, libraries and all music rooms giving service is because reading and learning is the composer for our education system.The music learnings on offer are holistic and include general knowledge and technique on the improvisational quality of the music and the spiritual knowledge of the power of the present moment. Music whispers to us truths that lead us to beauty ... For the fruits to be tender and sweet, the roots are watered with love and joy.
Drawing on the lived experience and oral history of many masterful South African heroes, Archive Africa provides the longevity through a foundation for Africa, education and the unified source of music. South African jazz is a unique and all inclusive channel to freedom, easily accessible to all cultural centres, particularly in Kwa Zulu Natal, Eastern Cape, Mozambique and Gauteng, but not limited too. The selections include Commentaries, Tributes, Interviews, Photographs, articles, video ,live recordings, books, tutirials, training modules, sheet music, research and testimonies. With an independent directory of resources available online with hard copy data disks backed up in 4 university centres of music learning, Archive Africa provides an open source to open the minds and hearts of all researchers in the fields of music, arts activism, and liberation.
It is important to note there are other existing archives that have built up some fantastic matetrial of old archive footage from era's before our birth as well as an ever evolving archive. It is important to build these networks and share our resources as best as possible to develop a coherent knowledge foundation of South Africa's arts culture and heritage landscape. The Story of South African Jazz Archive is engaged with ILAM (International Library of African Music) for a long-term and accessible sylabbus based resource.
